Skyfly welcomes FAA’s MOSAIC Regulations As They Go Live during EAA AirVenture; Company to display its Axe VCA Aircraft At Event

The FAA’s Mod­ern­iza­tion of Spe­cial Air­wor­thi­ness Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion (MOSAIC) reg­u­la­tions are set to go live dur­ing next mon­th’s EAA Air­Ven­ture at Oshkosh, which has been wel­comed by Skyfly as the com­pa­ny plans to bring its Axe air­craft to the show.

The two-seater air­craft was devel­oped with a safe­ty-first design approach, to sup­port per­son­al trav­el,
recre­ation and flight train­ing. It also com­bines ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing capa­bil­i­ty, with effi­cient
wing-borne cruise flight.

This allows pilots to oper­ate from a wide vari­ety of loca­tions, while retain­ing the famil­iar­i­ty, effi­cien­cy, and sta­bil­i­ty of fixed-wing flight that allows the air­craft to safe­ly glide, even with pow­er set to idle.

The Axe uti­lizes an inher­ent­ly stall-resis­tant dual-wing con­fig­u­ra­tion that con­tributes to both safe­ty
and effi­cien­cy. The for­ward wing is designed to reach its max­i­mum lift capa­bil­i­ty before the main
wing.

This nat­u­ral­ly encour­ages the air­craft to low­er its nose before a full stall can devel­op. And
unlike tra­di­tion­al lega­cy tail-down­force air­craft designs, both wings con­tribute pos­i­tive lift, improv­ing
range and pay­load capa­bil­i­ty.

The FAA’s new MOSAIC reg­u­la­tions replace many pre­scrip­tive design lim­i­ta­tions with per­for­mance-
based require­ments and cre­ate a path­way for air­craft inno­va­tions. The Axe inte­grates these fea­tures, which are enabled with­in the MOSAIC frame­work:

• Elec­tric propul­sion sys­tems: Allow­ing redun­dan­cy of motors, pro­pellers & bat­ter­ies
• Flight pro­file option­al­i­ty: Con­ven­tion­al run­way roll or ver­ti­cal take-off capa­bil­i­ty
• Advanced con­trols: Sim­pli­fied pilot oper­a­tion with flight enve­lope pro­tec­tion

Michael Thomp­son, CEO of Skyfly, said: The tim­ing could not be bet­ter. The Axe was con­ceived
around a sim­ple idea: that per­son­al ver­ti­cal flight can be safe and acces­si­ble when sim­plic­i­ty,
effi­cien­cy and redun­dan­cy are built into the design. MOSAIC cre­ates a frame­work that rec­og­nizes those prin­ci­ples.”

Vis­i­tors to EAA Air­Ven­ture 2026 will have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to see the Axe first­hand at the event in Oshkosh, Wis­con­sin, which is from July 20th to 26th.

Skyfly will be exhibit­ing the air­craft there at the world’s largest avi­a­tion gath­er­ing, where expect­ed atten­dance of more than 700,000 avi­a­tion enthu­si­asts will include pilots, air­craft own­ers, indus­try lead­ers, and media rep­re­sen­ta­tives.

The UK and US-based aero­space com­pa­ny devel­op­ing the Axe Ver­ti­cal-Capa­ble Air­craft, an elec­tric air­craft designed to com­bine the con­ve­nience of ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing with the effi­cien­cy and prac­ti­cal­i­ty of wing-borne flight. Found­ed in 2019, Skyfly has invest­ed the last sev­er­al years design­ing, build­ing, and flight test­ing the Axe around safe­ty-based prin­ci­ples.

Elec­tric Air­craft Sym­po­sium

Two days imme­di­ate­ly pri­or to EAA Air­Ven­ture, this year’s Elec­tric Air­craft Sym­po­sium (EAS) will be host­ed by the Ver­ti­cal Flight Soci­ety Fed­er­al City Chap­ter (VFS FCC) at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin from July 18th to 19th.

EAS 2026 will fea­ture 12 in-depth ses­sions with more than 50 speak­ers and mod­er­a­tors encom­pass­ing a broad range of top­ics cov­er­ing a wide vari­ety of elec­tric air­craft cat­e­gories — light sport, train­ing, gen­er­al and region­al air­craft, as well as heli­copters and VTOL — fea­tur­ing battery‑, hybrid- and hydro­gen-elec­tric propul­sion approach­es, plus ses­sions on infra­struc­ture and reg­u­la­tions.

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